Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Team Origin announce lineup for Louis Vuitton Trophy

[Source: Team Origin] TEAMORIGIN announced today the sailing team line-up for the forthcoming Louis Vuitton Trophy regatta in Nice, Côte d'Azur which commences at the weekend. The TEAMORIGIN sailing team line-up includes many of the familiar world class sailors...along with a few new names.

Leading the team is triple Olympic gold medallist Ben Ainslie, the team's skipper and helmsman, backed up by Iain Percy as tactician, Ian Moore as navigator, Andrew Simpson as strategist and Robert Greenhalgh as strategist/traveller - an impressive all British line-up for the afterguard.

The team includes 8 sailors from Great Britain, 4 from New Zealand, 3 from Australia, and 1 each from France, Denmark and Poland.

Mike Sanderson, Team Director, commented: “TEAMORIGIN is ready to go and looking forward to racing here in Nice. It is especially good to see GBR-75, our ACC training yacht, here on the water and in great shape thanks to the work of our shore crew over the last few weeks. It promises to be a great event.”

Ben Ainslie, team Skipper and Helmsman, added "It is great to be back on the water with so many of the guys from the team squad that sailed together in the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series in Auckland – and a few extras who will surely add their expertise and skill to our team for this event. We are looking forward to the racing starting on Saturday and should have plenty of exciting matches against some of the best teams in the world.”